bbanerje@sjuvax.UUCP (B. Banerjee) (12/09/84)
Hello All,
Just saw 3 programs pertaining to Dr. Who. Some comments on each.
1. Logopolis.
I was seeing this for the second time. Anything I may have said in the
past about this incarnation of the Master not being evil, is hereby
withdrawn. This guy is *NASTY* ! Imagine getting your jollies by
destroying the universe. Really cosmic!
Anyhow, did anyone notice the structure of LOGOPOLIS? It was almost
certainly a Von Newman architechture. When Adric and the Monitor go to
verify the data, they examined the Registers first. These were in two
banks of 16 registers per bank. Since there was a door separating the
sets of registers, the second set may have been an instruction or data
cache. Anyhow, 32 registers seems on the low side for a RISC type
architechture.
While examining the memory, they made reference to 'This segment' and
'DATA statements'. Now, 'This segment' sounds awfully like one of
those segmented architechtures. DATA statements could mean BASIC
(naaah!) or they could mean FORTRAN. I can just see it now. The
Universal entropy is held in check by an Intel system running FORTRAN.
2. K-9 and Company
This was being shown cause it's pledge week at the local PBS station.
Sarah Jane visits her aunt, who mysteriously disappears. There is an
old and dusty box, which when opened yields - K-9 Mark III. Anyhow,
they get involved in some local witchcraft. Climax comes when Sarah
Jane and K-9 ride to the priory where a human sacrifice is about to
take place, reaching at the tick of the clock prior to the summer
solstice. K-9 does his thing with his nose laser, and puts em all to
sleep. NOT VERY GOOD!
3. Terminus.
This is where Nyssa leaves. It's too bad, I had gotten 'accustomed to
her face'. It is also the episode I had heard about, where she oh so
tastefully, loses her clothes. She looked so good in a slip, I was
wondering why they hadn't done that before. The crux of the story
involves the big bang, which was created when an earlier time traveller
jettisoned some fuel into the stellar stew (corresponding to primordial
soup). I am disliking the new companion (Turlow) tremendously. Is it
my imagination, or has the turnaround time for companions gone up?
Sarah Jane was around for ages. Adric went a few weeks ago, and now
Nyssa.
Anyhow, that's it for now.
Stay Well,
--
Binayak Banerjee
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